BY: JESSICA BEUKER From the moment your parents tell you you’ll one day move out and go off to college to the time spent sitting in your high school guidance counselor’s office looking through university brochures, higher education is going…
These bi-racial twins are living proof that race is a social construct
BY: JESSICA BEUKER People, too often, are obsessed with categories. We have this innate desire to place people into little boxes: male or female, gay or straight, black or white. This system however, is not only flawed, but also damaging.…
How these 7 high-profile leaders and CEOs faked their way into million dollar positions
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Between credential inflation, tuition hikes, professors claiming poverty level wages and a generation of increasingly fed up and chronically stressed out students—the prospect of enrolling in post secondary education looks bleak. All of this, let me remind…
These darkly humorous photos show the reality of being married with kids (Photos)
Susan Copich is a former actress and a mother of two from New York, who has taken a dark but humorous approach to family photography in a series of photos she calls “Domestic Bliss”. “If you’ve met me, I have…
These cyber-thieves have stolen up to $1 billion from world banks and haven’t been caught
BY: ZOE MELNYK Hundreds of millions of dollars were recently stolen from banks across the world by criminals without the use of traditional guns and ski masks. In fact, they have never even set foot in the banks they’re stealing…
These wind turbines disguised as trees could populate city streets.
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS Jerome Michaud-Lariviere has invented The Wind Tree, a windmill that looks like a tree. Made of metal, it has 72 fake leaves that are actually turbines, and looks like a piece of art. The most significant part:…
If you’re sick of suburbia and paying heating bills, Earthships might be your way out
BY: DANIEL KORN Earthships, created by architect Mike Reynolds, are houses constructed with a combination of natural and recycled material that have been built for minimal reliance on public utilities or fossil fuels. Structural walls are typically made of recycled…
Behind the scenes of the world’s largest fetish convention (Photos)
Each year thousands of people flock to Fetish Con, a sexual wonderland that embraces every desire from S&M, to exhibitionism, to tickling, and verbal humiliation. For 15 years this convention has provided a safe space where amateurs and seasoned kink…
Why an out-dated Sex Ed program is dangerous to student health
BY: SINEAD MULHERN In 1998 I sat cross-legged in my grade one classroom in Alberta during my first ever lesson about sex. Our teacher was teaching us proper body part names. She sat at the top of the classroom having…
Incredible photos of Shaolin monks show the ability of mind to overcome anything
Photographer Steve McCurry took these photos from the Shaolin Temple in Henan Province. They document the rigorous and sometimes brutal training routines that monks must endure in order to elevate themselves to the higher planes of consciousness. Shaolin monks have two…
This former engineer quit his job to travel the world in a van
BY: ZOE MELNYK After years of dreaming about traveling the world, Mike Hudson finally made the decision to quit his job as a systems engineer and begin life on the road in a renovated LDV Convoy. Hudson began implementing his…
This imagination exercise can help you become healthier, more creative and less depressed
BY: CONNOR BRIAN It is necessary to know that two distinct selves exist within us: the active conscious and the remembering unconscious. The conscious self possesses a very unreliable memory, while the unconscious registers everything, without our knowledge, even the…
You can now buy Tesla Energy’s battery that could let you independently power your house
BY: DANIEL KORN The amount of people using solar energy to power their households independently has been steadily rising in the US over the past decade or so. Data from the US Department of Energy shows that the number of…
This café lets you play with puppies while you drink your coffee
BY: OLIVER GAYWOOD While cat cafés have been in the public eye for a long time—starting in Taipei in the late ’90s and more recently spreading to Canada—a new trend is sprouting legs in South Korea, which may interest those…
Why USB flash drives with mystery files are being cemented into walls of major cities
BY: LAURA ROJAS Berlin-based conceptual and multimedia artist Aram Bartholl started his project, Dead Drops, in 2010 during his time as an artist in residence at EYEBEAM, an art and technology centre in NYC. Dead Drops is essentially an offline…
Why Islamophobia is fuelling a rising culture of wrongful apologies
BY: KHADIJA KHAN Islam has been responsible for making endless contributions to the development of society. It stressed the importance of hygiene, emphasized women’s rights and made advancements in medicine and science. Through painting, calligraphy and Sufism it branched into…
Nestlé plans to siphon one million litres of BC’s freshwater for $2.25 and sell 24 packs for $4.99
BY: MICHAEL LYONS If you bought a $2.00 bottle of Nestlé water, how much would you expect it to cost to draw that natural Canadian resource? Under a new rate introduced by British Columbia’s Ministry of Environment, Nestlé would only…
This Japanese festival is entirely centred on a giant iron dick
BY: DANIEL KORN A lot of Western folks find the sexual predilections of Japan a bit odd. Tentacles, maid cafes, a tendency towards animated women who look like sexualized children, and the ever-mythologized (and apparently true) used-panty machine paint a…
This documentary proves that outdoor adventures are essential to human health
BY: ZOE MELNYK Though it may be practical, addictive and entertaining, technology often removes us from the basic wheelwork of life —nature. But how does this disassociation from the natural environment affect our psychology and physiology? Many of today’s children…
Banksy just snuck into the Gaza Strip and captured this video
Banksy is back in action and recently updated his website with his newest street art work in Gaza. He writes: “Gaza is often described as ‘the world’s largest open air prison’ because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But…